Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Bailey has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
At home: 5% of workers have no commute at all (Texas 14%). 5 jobs are based in Bailey, and 115 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Bailey itself; outside it, Leonard draws the most (11%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Bailey by day
On a workday 115 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Bailey on a workday afternoon, 46% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Bailey goes to work
Where Bailey clocks in
11% of workers
10% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What Bailey’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bailey’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 38 minutes each way, longer than most of Texas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bailey workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 112 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far it is to work from Bailey
About 26% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bailey: questions
What is the median household income in Bailey?
$52,917 (±$15,679) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bailey?
16.7%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bailey?
38 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bailey work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Leonard (11%, 6 mi), McKinney (10%, 33 mi), Bonham (9%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bailey without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bailey, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bailey
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.